Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money borrowed or otherwise withheld from another party, the creditor. Debt may be owed...

The national debt of the United States is the total national debt owed by the federal government of the United States to Treasury security holders. The...

government debt (also called public debt or sovereign debt) is the financial liabilities of the government sector.: 81  Changes in government debt over time...

This is a list of countries by external debt: it is the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies...

countries by government debt. Gross government debt is government financial liabilities that are debt instruments.: 81  A debt instrument is a financial...

Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other...

The debt ratio or debt to assets ratio is a financial ratio which indicates the percentage of a company's assets which are funded by debt. It is measured...

economics, consumer debt is the amount owed by consumers (as opposed to amounts owed by businesses or governments). It includes debts incurred on purchase...

In international law, odious debt, also known as illegitimate debt, is a legal theory that says that the national debt incurred by a despotic regime should...

development and other information technology fields, technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is the implied cost of future reworking because a solution...

specializes in debt collection is known as a collection agency or debt collector. Most collection agencies operate as agents of creditors and collect debts for a...

A country's gross external debt (or foreign debt) is the liabilities that are owed to nonresidents by residents.: 5  The debtors can be governments, corporations...

In the United States, the debt ceiling or debt limit is a legislative limit on the amount of national debt that can be incurred by the U.S. Treasury, thus...

Debt Justice (formerly Jubilee Debt Campaign, Jubilee Debt Coalition and Drop The Debt) is a UK-based campaigning organisation that exists to end unjust...

renegotiate its delinquent debts to improve or restore liquidity so that it can continue its operations. Replacement of old debt by new debt when not under financial...

Debt adjustment is a form of debt relief that allows a government, organization, corporation, or individual to repay a debt over a longer period of time...

On January 19, 2023, the United States hit its debt ceiling, leading to a debt-ceiling crisis, part of an ongoing political debate within Congress about...

In finance, bad debt, occasionally called uncollectible accounts expense, is a monetary amount owed to a creditor that is unlikely to be paid and for which...

A debt jubilee is a clearance of debt from public records across a wide sector or a nation. Such a jubilee was proposed as a solution to debt incurred...

Debt consolidation is a form of debt refinancing that entails taking out one loan to pay off many others. This commonly refers to a personal finance process...

Debt of Bones is a short novel by Terry Goodkind. It was first published in the August 1998 anthology Legends then later published as a stand-alone book...

The Debt Exchange, Inc. (also known as DebtX), is an American specialty finance company. It is one of the world's largest loan sale advisers for the sale...

Ecological debt refers to the accumulated debt seen by some campaigners as owed by the Global North to Global South countries, due to the net sum of historical...

The European debt crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt crisis that took...

subordinated debt (also known as subordinated loan, subordinated bond, subordinated debenture or junior debt) is debt which ranks after other debts if a company...

Debt of Honour (also known as The Man Who Could Not Forget) is a 1936 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Leslie Banks, Will Fyffe...

In economics, the debt-to-GDP ratio is the ratio between a country's government debt (measured in units of currency) and its gross domestic product (GDP)...

Debt deflation is a theory that recessions and depressions are due to the overall level of debt rising in real value because of deflation, causing people...

Debt relief or debt cancellation is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations...

disclosed debt of $504 million, according to Fortune magazine. Bloomberg documented debt of at least $605 million in 2016. Trump's outstanding debt was at...